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Liger vs Owens was ok. Owens works the back. It made sense, it's just wasn't very compelling.

Awesome 6 man match. It had a really good build. This allowed the high spots to achieve their maximum impact.

reDragon looked good. Jay White gets it. The false finishes were done so differently. You can tell reDragon watches 80's wrestling from MX to Tully and Arn.

Pretty nothing opener. Komatsu's bump off Nakanishi's boot was pretty cringe worthy.

Honma is a major upgrade.

Post thoughts if you're up. I will until I've got to leave.

Tully had more great stuff in my eyes. Arn though never mailed it in and was the king of 3 * matches and has longevity,

Hell Iamthe Brock 1st got over because the Rock put him over.

No just no. If Shawn comes back it needs to be for the right reasons alough hes had a great career and doesnt need to return. He had his retirement match. If he did come back to wrestle the one guy id pick is Rock. Dude do you understand how the wrestling business works. Older talent puts over new talent to create stars. You should lose your Dr. title for being so wrong .

How times change. 31 years ago Bill Watts tries to discredit Ken Hoffman by having Jake Roberts go over Dick Slater. Now the WWE uses a Ken Hoffman quote at the beginning of NXT to put over NXT.

I was on the Reaction show last night. These are my star ratings that I didn't mention. 1. Breeze vs Itami 2 3/4* 2. Tag title match 3/4* 3 Corbin vs. Dempsey 1 1/2* 4. Balor vs Neville 3 1/4* 5. Women's 4 way 3 1/2* 6. Zayn vs Owens 4 1/4* Overall a thumbs up show.

I thought the work in the build in the main event was done really well. For telling a story it did it's job. People have different tastes in wrestling. I get that, I've never understood criticizing smart work though.

(1) Sho Tanaka vs. Yohei Komatsu These guys delivered again. They had a real good opening match which is the norm for them. I'm going to miss them when they go on their journey to learn other styles. 2 3/4* 2. Tiger Mask IV & Mascara Dorada vs. Manabu Nakanishi, Captain New Japan This was fun, but nothing special. It was good for a showcase for Dorada. I hope he's able to take down Omega because he's been a bust so far in my eyes. (3) Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Rob Conway & Chase Owens I was most impressed with Tharpe in this. He plays a great Blassie like heel manager. I want to see more Owens. He seems to have some hot moves. I want to see if he's able to have some meat to him. I haven't seen him wrestle enough to have an opinion on him. I liked Conway's mimicking of Tenzan spots. 2 1/4* 4) Tomoaki Honma vs. Kota Ibushi My favorite match on the show. I thought this was risky putting Ibushi against Honma because of Honma's poularity. I thought they worked a great match with Ibushi on top. They timed all of Honmas offesne real well. On top of that I liked Honma working the neck area of Ibushi. That deadlift suplex was my 2nd favorite spot of the show. The post match was great. 4 * 5. IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship 3WAY Match: [39th Champions] Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish vs. [Challengers] KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley vs. [Challengers] Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson This was one hell of a spotfest. Just so many hot moves. One of the things that really stood out to me was how the Time Splitters set up the Bucks on the arm spot, and just went to town on it. I thought we would see reDragon continue with that theme, but no we didn't. I want to slap the taste out of the Bucks mouths so they're doing their jobs well. 3 3/4* 6. Kenny Omega vs. [Challenger] Ryusuke Taguchi Fuck this fell off a cliff fast. I liked the 1st minute or 2 with Omega really working the arm in some real fun ways then the match shit the bed. I mean sodomy for Christ sakes. Revenge Sosdomy spots. Good grief. I have a short leash on Omega at this point. I'm paraying for a Mascara Dorada title change upcoming and maybe breath some like into the title. 1 1/4* (7) Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga A boring waste of time. Nothing all that interesting. 1 1/2* 8. Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Tetsuya Naito vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI Their is enough talent here to have a really good match. It was disjointed with everyone doing their own thing with no building on what anyone else was doing. Naito getting booed out of the building didn't help. Felt like a 1st fall of a Lucha match with people pairing off. 2 1/2* 9. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. [Challengers] Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows I couldn't believe they switched the titles. I enjoyed this. My favorite spot of the show was Shibata running into Gallows punch. I liked Shibata in the shine trying to chop down Gallows. Kinda wish he sold the leg kicks and Figure 4 a bit. I know he's trying to work like a monster, but selling leg work shouldn't be blown off. This was worked like a Southern Tag with some variations and a little bit more back and forth. I liked the shine, could have gone longer. Anderson and Gallows work on top had a WWF 80's heel tag team feel to it. Some was interesting, and some were plodding. I like the fishing run where things were crissed crossed up. 3 1/4* Tanahashi vs. Styles I really liked a lot of this. I loved the early struggle of working holds. Styles selling of the holds really helped make it work. Tanahashi missing the back senton on the floor was a great transition for Styles to work the back. I thought Styles was great at working it. When Tanahasi got busted open on the High Fly Flow to the outside the match lost its way. It seemed Tanahashi was a bit out of it. It didn't kill the match, he just seemed a tad off. I thought Styles should have been more vicious on the cut. Still this was good stuff. 3 3/4* Final thoughts. This was a thumbs up show. It had plenty of throwaway matches. Still too much good stuff. Kenny Omega has been a bust so far for me. They also need to get a boost of new talent in the mix. It's easier said than done. Still the wrestling was really good.

We should all hope to be tricked into believing as much as possible.Absolutely. It's meant as a compliment. I totally agree, and that was what I meant by saying the match beat the smark out of the crowd. That's what was so incredible about the match. I mean we got dualing chants for a bit, but the crowd got so invested in the angle and how they were working the match a lot of the crowd suspened disbelief. Both guys did their jobs to a tee.

The type of finish is going to take time to get over.

But not quite out of you Great match. I like the stoppage finish. Owens/Balor is going to be good. That even got a chuckle out of me.

That match was fucking awesome. They were almost able to work the snark out of the Full Sail audience.

Sasha as a character is leaps and bounds ahead of all the women on the main roster.

That multi match was real fun. They combined fun stuff and moments for everyone to shine. The finish was pretty awesome.

I can see people loving that match. It had it's moments. Balor has big time charisma to him. I just felt it lacked transitions.

I enjoyed their 5 minute match where they won the titles. I was hoping I could get a feel for them as a team tonight. I didn't.

Balor's allergies look like they're killing him.

The blown spots early just threw this match off the rails.

No sell is a bit strong. He sold it after the kicks.

Dempsey is much better than Corbin. That blown spot was ugly. Dempsey is Black Bart to Corbin's Dan Spivey.